Stocking tank question!!

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Adam Mac

Thanks all for the input. It is a 80 gallon tank so yes it isnt a 10 foot long tank but it is only 3 inches and I plan to upgrade one day within a year or whatever. I started about 7-8 months ago. Tang is acting a lot different with the completely redone tank. Only problem is my purple firefish I ordered from J and L showed up DOA. (Which they credited no problem). And when I walked in the door to start getting all my stuff into my tank I found my red firefish dried up on my floor !!! Jumped out go figure. SOooo the tang got it his way and the end of the day anyways. Lil buggar. What a hobby I tell yah. Lol!!

Thanks for posting. Adam it is never a good idea to buy a fish with the idea that you will upgrade your tank as it grows. Money, jobs, a move , a house, a spouse come to play.

I would recommend that you start a garlic extract feeding regimen immediately to ward off the high possibility of ich surfacing. With the addition of new fish, moving the rocks and palcing the tank in the sump, the risk is very high.

Adam, Madreefer suggests a 10 foot tank is necessary when everyone knows a 6 footer will do but he is of course, the Madreefer.

[Adam Mac]

Running a UV sterilizer since day one. My regal has had ich and has fought it off before and the tang is healthy and loves my landscape and swims lots and in my opinion is a very healthy specimen. So I take all your points into mind but visually I think theres nothing wrong with my situation. I havent heard of a powder brown needing quite 10 feet to swim. I mean thats just not in the deck of cards. Pretty much every tang requires 90 gal min yet you still see yellows in every system out there. I dont feel im being hurtful or cruel to my powder.....or should I???

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Adam Mac

Running a UV sterilizer since day one. My regal has had ich and has fought it off before and the tang is healthy and loves my landscape and swims lots and in my opinion is a very healthy specimen. So I take all your points into mind but visually I think theres nothing wrong with my situation. I havent heard of a powder brown needing quite 10 feet to swim. I mean thats just not in the deck of cards. Pretty much every tang requires 90 gal min yet you still see yellows in every system out there. I dont feel im being hurtful or cruel to my powder.....or should I???

A 10 foot tank is nice but not necessary.
Tangs with the exception of a kole tang need large tanks, 6 footers because they are swimmers and do that all day. They need the length to be able to freely motor back and forth.
Those who have had tangs in smaller tanks and moved up or observed them swimming is larger tanks noticed the marked improvement in the fish.

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by naesco

A 10 foot tank is nice but not necessary.
Tangs with the exception of a kole tang need large tanks, 6 footers because they are swimmers and do that all day. They need the length to be able to freely motor back and forth.
Those who have had tangs in smaller tanks and moved up or observed them swimming is larger tanks noticed the marked improvement in the fish.

and then again, some have not.